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There are hundreds of billions of lines of COBOL code running on production systems worldwide. That’s not ideal for a language over 60 years old and whose primary architects are mostly retired or dead ...

Refactoring and unit testing are a great pair of tools and should be a part of every programmer's workbench. Sadly, not every programmer knows how to use these tools. My first exposure to them came ...

Dependency Injection is a programming paradigm that has recently been gaining considerable popularity within the Microsoft .NET Framework community. Applying it will force decisions to be made about ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...